Election 2008

I think this counts as an “Oops”. Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google’s Blogger service. The […]
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I had the chance to meet Eric Roberson, who is running for CD32 up in Dallas, while I was in Austin for the Democratic convention, but due to my short stay our schedules didn’t allow for an interview. Fortunately, he was going to be coming to Houston shortly afterwards, and I took advantage of that […]
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I said I was going to be suspicious of the Newsweek poll that showed Sen. Barack Obama with a 15-point lead over Sen. John McCain until such time as I saw corroborating evidence in other polls. Looks like I now have Exhibit A. Buoyed by enthusiasm among Democrats and public concern over the economy, Sen. […]
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We’ve all heard of perennial candidates, but this is a concept I hadn’t really considered. Few things are certain in presidential politics, but here are three: it will be expensive; it will get negative; and, at some point, former Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia will be mentioned as a possible Democratic running mate. The latter […]
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I know they say that history has a tendency to repeat itself. The more stories I read about Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr being the Ralph Nader of 2008, the more I think it’s just that new cycles repeat themselves. Consider: Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party bid for the White House is the longest of long […]
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Concluding my series of interviews from the convention in Austin is a short chat I had with State Rep. Juan Garcia. I hadn’t made a prior arrangement with Rep. Garcia for this, and was fortunate to run into him in the byzantine labyrinth that was the outer hallway of the Austin Convention Center, and he […]
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Next up on the interview list is Ernie Casbeer, who came out of nowhere to get 44.5% of the vote in a district (PDF) where no other Democrat topped 40% – Bill Moody scored 39.7% in HD59, with most other Dems running seven or more points worse than they did statewide. Casbeer is a veteran […]
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Next up in my convention interview series is Joe Moody, running for the now-open HD78 seat in El Paso, which was held by Rep. Pat Haggerty until he was knocked out in a nasty GOP primary fight against Dee Margo, who was backed by a chunk of the Texas GOP establishment, including Governor Perry. Moody […]
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Next up in my series of convention interviews is yet another Tarrant County candidate, Chris Turner, who is running against the egregious Rep. Bill Zedler in HD96. This is another purple district (the list of such district in the Metroplex that Blank left in the Miklos interview post is spot on), where Bill Moody got […]
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Continuing with my series of candidate interviews from the convention, next up is Robert Miklos, who is running for HD101 in Dallas County. Miklos is a former prosecutor with the Harris County DA’s office (he worked under Johnnie Holmes) and with the city of Dallas, and he’s now in private practice specializing in land use […]
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